The results of my initial foray into using the Twitter REST API …
Baby steps: evidently there are all kinds of plug-and-play snippets provided by Twitter to embed tweets, timelines, ‘follow’ buttons, etc., but from these of course there’s little challenge nor much to learn. Instead I wanted to learn how to work with Twitter’s API for more dynamic, flexible applications.
As I understand it Twitter provides both a REST API for get (search) as well as streaming API. I hope I can find time to look into the latter but the idea of this effort was simply to scratch out a bit of javascript (a less-than-polished mashup of native js and jQuery) to retrieve a boatload json-formatted data and render it prettily. Like I said, ‘baby steps’ …